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has to be said against their form of negative criticism. The thoughtful laity generally have so far preferred to follow such great scholars as the late Archbishops Whately, Tait, Thomp son and such Bishops as Dr. Lightfoot, Dr. Westcott, Dr. Handley Moule and Bishop Perowi o, to say nothing of such great scholars as Dean Alford and Dean Payne Smith, and many others who en tirely refused to be led by Wellhaussen and other Germans. With regard to science, I am glad to say that we Christians who still believe in our Bibles are warmly supported by such great men as the late Lord Kelvin f Professor Michael Faraday, Sir George Stokes, Professor Romanes, and a host of others, who were not only devout Christians but giants intellectually in the field o f science. What was good enough for such great scientists is surely good enough for us and our clergy. — Col. Seton Churchill. A GOOD ENDING John Wesley in his old age spoke with humility in the following words: “ I have been reflecting on my past life; I have been wandering up and down between fifty and sixty years, endeavoring in my poor way to do a little good to my fellow crea tures; and now it is possible that there are but few steps between me and death; and what have I to trust to for salvation! I can see nothing that I have done or suf fered that will bear looking at. I have no other plea than this:
problem and the problem of eternal life or eternal death, and nothing else will. I would not give two cents to send the Social Gospel to .China. I would give thousands of dollars, millions if I had them, to send the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, to China.
GIVE US EDUCATED MEN.
OME of the liberalists appear to think that we laymen want our clergy to be an ignorant, unscientific lot, but surely this
is misrepresenting us. Our complaint is that since about 1886 many of them have been so obsessed in the study of German theology that they have neg lected the study of archaeology and science generally. There was some ex cuse for German critics in olden days which there n not for the preachers who now follow them in their errors. When I was ycung it was thought that the art of writing was not known till about the time of Solomon, say 1000 B. C. But, thanks to English archaeolo gists such as Sir Henry Rawlinson, Colonel Conder, Professor Petrie, Pro fessor Edouard Naville, the great Swiss Egyptologist, and others, it has been discovered that writing was well known in the time of Abraham, nearly 1,000 years before the time of Solomon! Con sequently there is no real difficulty in believing that Moses in 1500 B. C. could have written every word of the Pentateuch, and that possibly he may even have had access to the writings of Abraham, which would take us back to the time of Hammurabi, the Babylonian law-giver. It is the ignorance, and not the learning, of some of our modern critics that has made them stumble into the errors of the Germans. By means of the spade the evidence in support of the Bible is growing stronger and stronger every day in countries like Egypt, Palestine Mesopotamia, etc., but these critics apparently ignore all that
‘ I the chief of sinners am, But Jesus died for me.’ ” !te A LITTLE WHILE. A little while for patient vigil keeping To face the stern, to wrestle with the strong; A little while to sow the seed with weeping; Then bind the sheaves and sing the harvest song.
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